Truth does not require interpretation. Clarification, but not interpretation.

Truth is that which is. Truth is that which is absent of error.

The square root of 16 is 4. It requires no interpretation.

Why then, are there thousands of different denominations of Christian religion?
Answer: Opinion. Man has corrupted and perverted the raw truth of the gospel to fit their need to feel important and co -contributors in the finished work of Christ. Religion.

Jesus Christ, the Son of God, did not die for our opinion, He died for our sin. Jesus Christ did not come to make you rich, happy, popular, or a perfect human (as so many denominations tell you). He did not come to make peace on earth among men, (sounds good for a song) He came to reconcile you back to God, to divide the believer from the unbeliever, the wheat from the chaff. He came to trade His life for your life. He traded His righteousness and perfection for your drunkenness, lust, pride, SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS, fornication, coveting, murder, hate, adultery, lying, stealing, cheating, same sex marriage, death and anything else you can think of that mankind does that isn’t pleasing to God – Sin. Behavior that once separated mankind from God. If you are anywhere on this list, He, because of His grace, His love and His mercy, took (past tense) them to the Cross. BY FAITH IN THIS FINISHED WORK, you become what He is(perfect). He became what you were (dead). The wages of sin is death. HEEEEEEE DIED. YOUUUU LIVE!!
He who knew no sin became sin. His death satisfied (propitiation) God’s requirement for the wages of sin. Christ died ONCE…. for ALL sin. A perfect sacrifice for all time. Hebrews 10:10. Finished!(John 19:28)
He raised from death to life as the first born of a new creation, received a glorified body and is now seated at the right hand of God interceding for us. He, Christ Jesus is the one and only mediator between God and man. He in the Father and we in Him – The FIRST of a new type. We are with Him in heavenly places. (Ephesians 2:5-6) We have what He has and we are where He is spiritually.
[5]- Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) [6] And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.- Oh that’s good!! We were dead. Now we are alive. That is good news. The Gospel.
Spirit being entered and cohabitates with the physical human being , first time ever in history since the fall of Adam. The first Adam failed, the risen bodily Christ is the second Adam. He is what we were meant to be at the beginning and is now what we become by FAITH. Man once had the Spirit of God ( Genesis 2:7) but lost it because of disobedience. (Genesis 2:17)
[17]- But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.-

Man has been dead ever since.

The new creation, the believer, is a God-man and will look just like Jesus Christ with the shedding of this earthly body. By faith in His finished work, you were crucified with Him and….. raised with Him to newness of life. (Galatians 2:20) By faith, He moves in and lives in you. Do you see this? You didn’t move into Him, He moved into you. You don’t have the power to do any of that! It’s His power. Faith unleashes this power. The one that spoke the universe into existence and made you and I could certainly enter His own creation. Think about it.
Christ is God’s plan to be close and at one with His creation. Religion is man’s attempt to be close and at one with the Creator. Who would you Trust?

Jesus said: “no one comes to the Father unless they are first called”. We just rest in His finished work. We must stop thinking and preaching that we poor feeble humans can do anything to warrant Gods regeneration. We were dead to God!!! He said: “aside from me, you can do nothing”
He asked us to do one thing: Believe. That is the work and will of God. The disciples asked Jesus: “what is the work of God”? Jesus responded: “that you believe on the one God sent”.(John 6:29) By faith you become bone of His bone and flesh of His flesh. This…..is the body of Christ, the church. If you add one thing to that, you are in sin. You may still be a lying, adulterous drunk but you are saved and heaven bound if you believe Jesus is who He says He is. You won’t hear that in church!!!!! Your sinful behavior will not sever your relationship with God because your behavior, good or bad, did not establish your relationship with God, your faith in the shed blood of Christ did. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 tells us:
[9] -Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, [10] Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. [11] And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.-
Do you see this? You by faith are WASHED, SANCTIFIED and JUSTIFIED by…..HIS….Spirit. Stop trying and start trusting. Can you imagine trying to be good enough to come before a Holy God? Forget it! How much would you have to train to jump over the Washington Monument unaided? Futile. He says stop right where you are and I’ll take you just as you are. I’ll carry all your burdens. No matter what you’ve done, I’ll take you.
You are declared righteous. Right with God. You didn’t do it! He did. It has nothing to do with how you feel. It’s true because He promised it. The old covenant was a promise between God and man. Remember, He said if you keep my laws, I will bless you and if you don’t, I will curse you. We know how that turned out. In the new covenant of Grace, God made a promise (covenant) between He and Himself. The only one that is unchanging.

You are free from sin, the power of sin, guilt, law, work, condemnation and spiritual death. Jesus said FREE INDEED! (Not the earthly consequences of sin)
He tells us His yoke is easy and His burden is light. It is easy…for US. HE BEARS THE BURDEN!!!!!! Are you free to sin after salvation? Well yeah! Should you? No! Just as you shouldn’t have before. Will you? Yes. Why? Because you’re human, born into sin under Adam. DO NOT MISS THIS: there was nothing you could do not to be born of Adam into sin. Therefore, there is nothing you can do to be born again by the Spirit. Jesus did it all and hands you the gift. Accepting a gift is not work.

Sin dwells in your flesh. But you are not your flesh. You by faith are a new creature with a new identity. You are a new creature with Christ living in you. You are now a part of the first born of God.
Out of Adam and into Christ. There are only two types of human: either you are in Adam or you’re in Christ. Your mind is being renewed. You are not being progressively sanctified, you are sanctified, (set apart) justified (not guilty) and glorified (you have what Christ has). Christ frees us from all condemnation. We do not lose our sonship when we sin! Where sin is GRACE ABOUNDS!
YOU CAN…NOT…OUTSIN…..THE….GRACE…..OF….GOD!!!! Some will say grace does not give a license to sin. You don’t need a license, you do it just fine without a license. Some will say, you can’t just go and live any way you want to. Yes you can! That’s the glorious message of the gospel of Grace. You are Free!!! Free indeed. Your “want tos” will change, your needs will change, your addictions will change, your mind will change, your speech will change, your behavior will change. You will change when the living Christ lives in you. If you try to change theses things as religion tells us, you will end up frustrated and will remain in bondage. If you do manage to change these things yourself, (temporarily) you will then have a sense of self righteousness taking your focus off of Christ and onto yourself. If you rest in the finished work of Christ and enjoy the freedom He has secured for you, you will see Himm change these things. He promised! We must not focus on how big our sin is , but how big our Savior is! Those who believe this become part of Christ’s body “the church” ecclesia, Those called out for God. There is one body, one faith, one baptism (not water), one Spirit.

How can you build a trillion dollar industry called “the church” with thousands of conflicting messages? That’s not the church, that’s thousands of opinions of what “the church” is.

There is one church and there is one message. Pure and simple. The raw unadulterated Gospel. Jesus plus nothing.

The church is the body of Christ.
ITS GOD’S INSTITUTION, NOT MANS!!!
It’s made up of blacks, whites, male, female, Jews, Greeks, gentiles, gay, straight, rich, poor, Americans, Europeans,
Africans, Indians, Chinese, Japanese, Humans!!! Those with good behavior and bad behavior that have been washed in the blood of Christ by Faith. You lose all of these identities and your religious identities and become One! It was started by Christ and He wasn’t Roman. We are all made one in Christ by Christ. Amen, Amen and Amen!

The message has been subject to corruption and perversion for 2000 years as a result of opinions of what the message should say to fit someone’s religion.

The single biggest reason for this is that one fails to rightly divide the Word of truth. I’ve touched on this before but it must be reiterated. We must read the Bible in context and always ask if what is being said is before or after the Cross, who is being spoken to and is it under law or under Grace. The Christian after the cross(death, burial and resurrection) is under a new covenant, The covenant of Grace. We can never apply commands under the law to someone who is under Grace. So much of the doctrine in mainstream institutional denominations is taking Old Testament teaching (law) and attempting to merge it into new covenant (grace) teaching. Or, taking one verse and building a belief on it. Some take Levitical law in the Old Testament and try to apply it today, such as: “thou shalt not lay with a man as a man lays with a woman” it’s an abomination to God”. Ok, so is eating shellfish or working on Saturday. First of all, theses laws (613 of them) were written to the Jewish nation!!!!!! Are you a believer in the finished work of Christ under any of the Jewish law? No!!!! Not even a Jew is under them since Christ settled it and fulfilled them all at the Cross! See my previous writing on “What changed after the Cross.
Read Paul’s writings (apostle to the gentiles). We are free from the law, dead to the law, it was the schoolmaster that led us to Christ. Christ is all. (Galatians, Romans and all of Paul’s writings). We are no longer under the law of the Jewish nation. You never were. This doesn’t mean the law was bad, it means that Christ fulfilled them for us!
Homosexuality was and still is an abomination to God, but so is eating shellfish and not keeping the sabbath. So is your self righteousness and pride. Sin, breaking any of Gods law is still an abomination to God.
But, don’t you see that JESUS DIED TO PAY FOR ALL OF THIS SIN AND TO SET YOU RIGHT WITH GOD! Jesus Christ took the abomination and wrath you deserved upon Himself!!!
We must rightly divide the word of God (2 Timothy 2:15). This means to read scripture in proper context. Everything written is for you but not to you.

Are we free to sin? We always were.
But in Christ we are free FROM the sin we were free to do! You will lose your desire to sin. Grace teaches us to say no to sin. God has promised to forget your sin and removes it as far as the east is from the west. Oh that’s good. Thank you Jesus.

Christ has broken the chains of sin and death. Don’t walk in bondage another second.
Salvation is more than eternal life , it’s life in Christ right now, every second. Life eternal begins now!!!!!!

Jesus did not die for your opinion or anyone else’s. He died for truth. The truth that sets you free.

Get over yourself and into Jesus.

All who call on Him will be saved!

THE SINNERS PULPIt
Come in a sinner, leave a saint.